Animating a radial progress bar

In this Material Design animation tutorial, we’ll be covering Radial Progress bars. Radial progress bars are dope. They’re great for direct user input (i.e. setting a timer), dashboard updates, or for determining the ideal number of cats (that number may be quite low for you).

The technique that I’m sharing with you is my favorite and involves the ‘trim paths’ tool in After Effects. There is also what’s called a ‘radial wipe’ effect but the downside is that you lose the round corners and the animated gradient, both nice details, in my humble opinion.

I think the only thing that annoys me about this workflow is that fully editable paths from Photoshop aren’t supported on import into After Effects. (they come in as masks and need to be converted to be usable).

I spoke with one of the developers on the Adobe After Effects team about this and he was like, “yep, that’s how it is, son.” So there you go.

I show you how to handle this by employing ‘ye olde’ copy & pasting technique. I know you can handle it like the designer pimp you are.

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